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🗓️ 3 May 2025
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Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, China, Romania, Bolivia and the Vatican City.
In Gaza and Israel people have been taking to the streets to demand an end to the war. The protests have taken different forms, and as Paul Adams notes, also involve very different risks.
Amid the on-going trade war between China and the US, Laura Bicker speaks to Chinese traders at one of the world's biggest wholesale markets in Yiwu, to find out how Donald Trump's tariffs are affecting business.
After election results were annulled in Romania last year, the country faces a rerun this Sunday. The political chaos that followed the Constitutional Court's decision left a sour taste among many voters, finds Tessa Dunlop, who met people from across the political spectrum in Bucharest.
The Bolivian city of Potosi was once at the heart of the Spanish empire, thanks to the discovery of a mountain of silver in the 16th Century. Carolyn Lamboley paid a visit to the city, which is now a shell of what it was and met some of the miners who still work in the region.
Rome's trattorias and cafes are bustling with cardinals and their supporters as they deliberate the kind of leader they want as their new Pope. Veteran BBC Vatican correspondent, David Willey, has been observing the hushed conversations ahead of the Conclave which gathers in the Vatican on Wednesday.
Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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0:00.0 | Hello, today amid Donald Trump's tariff war, we hear from Chinese traders who claim they can do just fine without America's custom. |
0:15.3 | We're in Romania as it prepares for a second attempt at a general election after last year's vote was called off following |
0:22.0 | claims of Russian interference. In Bolivia, we meet the miners working in a centuries-old |
0:28.2 | mine, shrouded in myth and legend, situated in one of the world's highest cities. And finally |
0:34.9 | to Rome, where cardinals can be seen in hushed conversation at the city's |
0:39.9 | Tartorias before the papal conclave begins next week. But first, Israel's war in Gaza, more than a year |
0:48.3 | and a half long, grinds on. Since Israel broke the ceasefire in the middle of March, more than 2,000 Palestinians have |
0:56.6 | been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 59 Israeli hostages |
1:03.8 | remain in Gaza. But the resumption of war has also spurred protests among both Israelis and |
1:10.7 | Palestinians desperate for the conflict to end. |
1:14.4 | These have taken different forms and involved taking very different risks, as our correspondent |
1:19.7 | Paul Adams reports. |
1:22.0 | In the week that saw Israel remember its fallen soldiers, and then the following day celebrate its independence, the war in |
1:29.6 | Gaza cast a long shadow. It's been almost 19 months, almost the longest war in Israel's |
1:36.6 | turbulent 77-year history. A war it didn't seek, but seems unwilling or unable to stop. |
1:43.8 | And for Palestinians, bombed, harried, driven this way and |
1:47.1 | that, scrambling every day just to survive, a disaster beyond imagination. A war they also did not |
1:54.1 | seek, but which will not let them go. On both sides, people are saying to those driving this |
2:00.0 | conflict, please stop. For the driving this conflict, please, stop. |
2:02.9 | For the past month, anger has boiled over in Israel and Gaza, a simultaneous but entirely separate |
2:09.0 | set of protests by people taking different risks but looking to achieve the same goal, relief. |
2:16.1 | In Israel, where anti-war protests have clogged the streets of Tel Aviv |
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